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RUS Criticizes Women's Studies, Work-Study Funds Increase, Offices Play Musical Chairs

Harvard's Women's Studies program, which currently consists of a listing of courses offered in other departments is inadequate, according to a Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS) pamphlet distributed this week. The field "remains unrecognized by the various departments," the pamphlet says. Elizabeth A. Einaudi '83, president of RUS and co-author of the pamphlet, said this week the lack of recognition results from the University's "long-standing bias against Women's Studies." But Judith A. Kates, coordinator of the committee on Women's Studies, said this week that bias isn't the problem. "There just hasn't been a whole lot of interest in the subject," she explained.

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In this era of cutbacks and belt-tightening, not every budget is being reduced. The University will be able to distribute $300,000 more this year under the federally sponsored College Work-Study Program. The University received the extra money because government officials used as a base for calculating the grants the 1979-80 academic year, when Harvard received supplemental grants of $400,000 because other schools weren't spending all their allocated funds.

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Several offices have been engaged in a campus-wide game of musical chairs. Renovations began this week on the ninth floor of Holyoke Center to pave the way for the newly located headquarters of the Harvard Credit Union. To make way for the credit Union, the Committee on Degrees in History and Literature has moved to the former Varsity Club on 14 Quincy St. near the Freshman Union. To make room for History and Lit, the Varsity Club has moved across the river to Carey Cage, a space formerly used for storing stadium concessionaires. To make matters a bit more confusing, the old Varsity Club building, now occupied by History and Lit and the Committee on Degrees in Literature has been renamed Burr Hall. The old Burr Hall will be torn down to make room for the new wing of the Fogg Museum.

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